Built in 1898 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, the Auditorium's lofty, open architecture is from another era and the incredible acoustics keep the music real. In Colorado's chillier months, you will find concerts, speakers, and panels in the intimate setting of our 1918 Community House.
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Door time: 7:00 PM Show time: 7:30 PM The 2026 Robert Mann Chamber Music Series opens with “one of the most popular brass ensembles in the world” (Washington Post), the Juno Award-winning quintet Canadian Brass. With a discography of over 130 albums and an extensive worldwide touring schedule, Canadian Brass is a pioneer in bringing […]
Door time: 7:00 PM Show time: 7:30 PM “Pianist Yuja Wang is a dazzler,” claims Cleveland Classical. “She has a way of dressing, of taking the stage, and of bowing that bespeaks confidence and star quality.” In her Festival debut, Wang plays Barber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Piano Concerto, a spectacular rainbow of sound. Music Director Peter […]
Door time: 6:00 PM Show time: 6:30 PM Door time: 7:00 PM Show time: 7:30 PM “Pianist Yuja Wang is a dazzler,” claims Cleveland Classical. “She has a way of dressing, of taking the stage, and of bowing that bespeaks confidence and star quality.” In her Festival debut, Wang plays Barber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Piano Concerto, […]
Door time: 6:00 PM Show time: 6:30 PM Former Colorado Symphony Music Director Jeffrey Kahane returns to the Festival stage to lead all six of Bach’s celebrated Brandenburg Concertos with the help of trumpeter Maximillian Morel. Possibly the most revered of all Baroque music, this complete set of Bach’s masterpieces should be on every music-lover’s […]
Low Ticket Alert! Presented by Z2 Entertainment Door time: 6:30 Show time: 7:30 "One of the most ambitious and literary songwriters of her generation” (Rolling Stone), Rosanne Cash is America’s foremost musical woman of letters, a literate and incisive artist whose poignant and distinctive vocals turn every song into a revelatory tale. A singular artist […]
Door time: 7:00 PM Show time: 7:30 PM The Robert Mann Chamber Music Series continues with a world premiere by “astonishingly innovative” composer James Stephenson (Musical America); while he writes deftly “in all walks of the musical landscape,” his new quartet features trumpet and strings. Following intermission, Tchaikovsky remembers Italy — by way of Russia, […]
Z2 Entertainment, 88.5 KGNU, & Sunflower Seeds Ukraine Present Door time: 6:30 Show time: 7:30 DakhaBrakha is a music quartet from Kyiv, Ukraine. Their “ethno chaos” sound spans years of performances prior to Russia’s 2022 invasion, but war is in everything now. They masterfully blend Ukrainian traditional music with influences from around the world, resulting in an unexpected […]
Door time: 7:00 PM Show time: 7:30 PM Six-time Grammy-winning conductor and Music Director Laureate of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin joins the Festival for a program celebrating the distinctive American sound. This spotlight on American composers begins with Aaron Copland’s Rodeo with its iconic “Hoedown,” followed by a chaconne from John Corigliano’s romantic […]
This workshop will take place on the Chautauqua Auditorium stage. Get insights about conducting from Maestro Leonard Slatkin in a hands-on workshop onstage at Chautauqua Auditorium.
Door time: 6:00 PM Show time: 6:30 PM Six-time Grammy-winning conductor and Music Director Laureate of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin joins the Festival for a program celebrating the distinctive American sound. This spotlight on American composers begins with Aaron Copland’s Rodeo with its iconic “Hoedown,” followed by a chaconne from John Corigliano’s romantic […]
Door time: 6:00 PM Show time: 6:30 PM Music Director Peter Oundjian begins this all-Mozart marvel with a mysterious serenade for winds, which broods before turning suddenly buoyant. At the keyboard for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 is Tony Siqi Yun, a nuanced performer who plays with “every note personalized” (Musical America). Closing this revel […]
Door time: 7:00 PM Show time: 7:30 PM The Robert Mann Chamber Music Series continues with a program featuring the Festival’s own musicians. Beethoven’s only quintet for piano and wind is rife with rhapsodic dialogue between its instruments. In Stravinsky’s bitter L’Histoire du Soldat, a WWI soldier makes a deal with the devil in order […]
Presented by Z2 Entertainment & 88.5 KGNU Door time: 6:30 Show time: 7:30 "THE COUNTRY STAR" VIP PACKAGE: Admission to a private pre-show event at Chautauqua featuring a two-song performance by Marty and the Superlatives, along with a Q&A Storytelling session with Marty and Band One VIP Laminate and Lanyard Crowd Free […]
Door time: 7:00 PM Show time: 7:30 PM Music Director Peter Oundjian helms one of music’s grandest spectacles: Holst’s The Planets. From the hammering “Mars, the Bringer of War” to the ethereal “Neptune, the Mystic,” this seven-planet suite lures the heavens into Chautauqua Auditorium. Electrifying pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii performs Rachmaninoff’s dreamy Second Piano Concerto. This […]
Door time: 6:00 PM Show time: 6:30 PM Music Director Peter Oundjian helms one of music’s grandest spectacles: Holst’s The Planets. From the hammering “Mars, the Bringer of War” to the ethereal “Neptune, the Mystic,” this seven-planet suite lures the heavens into Chautauqua Auditorium. Electrifying pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii performs Rachmaninoff’s dreamy Second Piano Concerto. This […]
Door time: 6:00 PM Show time: 6:30 PM Conductor Gemma New returns to lead a varied program, beginning with Prokofiev’s cheerful “Classical” Symphony, which he referred to as “a symphony as Mozart or Hayden might have written it.” Ricardo Morales joins the Festival Orchestra to perform Copland’s Clarinet Concerto — penned during a four-month tour […]
Tickets Are Flying! Presented by Z2 Entertainment Door time: 6:30 Show time: 7:30 Cat Power is celebrating the 20th anniversary of her milestone 2006 album, The Greatest, with Redux, a three-song EP arriving digitally and on 10” vinyl via Domino Recording Company on Friday, January 23, 2026. Recorded by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer and longtime collaborator Stuart […]
Door time: 7:00 PM Show time: 7:30 PM “None of us have any memory of our lives without the string quartet,” claims this highly sought-after ensemble of energetic musicians who met each other at music camp as teenagers. By audience request, the Danish String Quartet returns to the Robert Mann Chamber Music Series with a […]
Presented by Z2 Entertainment Door time: 6:30 Show time: 7:30 SYML SYML is the solo venture of Seattle artist Brian Fennell. Welsh for “simple”—he makes music that taps into the instincts that drive us to places of sanctuary, whether that be a place or a person. Fennell’s latest offering, Nobody Lives Here, marks his clearest, […]
Door time: 7:00 PM Show time: 7:30 PM Audiences raved about pianist Michelle Cann’s Festival debut in 2023; now Cann returns to Chautauqua to perform a piano concerto by esteemed composer Valerie Coleman. After intermission, Berlioz invites us on a psychedelic romp: his Symphonie Fantastique is a musical hallucination that evokes dark revels, an execution, […]
Door time: 6:00 PM Show time: 6:30 PM Audiences raved about pianist Michelle Cann’s Festival debut in 2023; now Cann returns to Chautauqua to perform a piano concerto by esteemed composer Valerie Coleman. After intermission, Berlioz invites us on a psychedelic romp: his Symphonie Fantastique is a musical hallucination that evokes dark revels, an execution, […]
Z2 Entertainment & 105.5 The Colorado Sound Present Door time: 6:30 Show time: 7:30 The Jayhawks The Jayhawks and their rootsy sound were definitely swimming against the tide when they emerged from a crowded Minnesota music scene in 1985. Over the course of almost 4 decades, 11 albums, countless memorable live shows and enough […]
Door time: 6:00 PM Show time: 6:30 PM Music Director Peter Oundjian continues his tradition of closing the Festival season with a massive Mahler symphony. Mahler referred to his sunny Third as “A Summer’s Midday Dream,” and was aware he was defying symphonic convention as he wrote it, saying, “But to write a symphony means, […]
Z2 Entertainment & KUVO Jazz Present Door time: 6:30 Show time: 7:30 Herbie Hancock Pre-Show Soundcheck VIP Experience: LIMITED AVAILABILITY Includes: One (1) Premium Reserved ticket to the concert Invitation to attend the closing moments of Herbie Hancock's soundcheck before the show, featuring: An Intimate Q & A with Herbie Hancock One (1) […]
Z2 Entertainment & KUVO Jazz Present Door time: 6:30 Show time: 7:30 Herbie Hancock Pre-Show Soundcheck VIP Experience: LIMITED AVAILABILITY Includes: One (1) Premium Reserved ticket to the concert Invitation to attend the closing moments of Herbie Hancock's soundcheck before the show, featuring: An Intimate Q & A with Herbie Hancock One (1) […]
Door time: 6:30 PM Show time: 7:00 PM YUJA is the new documentary from director Lorna Tucker showcasing Yuja Wang, one of the world's most celebrated and compelling pianists. Hailed as the "rock star" of classical music, Wang balances extraordinary success with the pressures of constant scrutiny and performance. Offering rare, intimate access to her […]
Door time: 6:30 PM Show time: 7:00 PM Silent Film Series 2026 | Series Four Pack Available! Featuring live music accompaniment by Rodney Sauer on piano. A 100-year tradition, the beloved Chautauqua Silent Film Series continues with The General (1926). The General is a silent comedy-adventure starring Buster Keaton as a determined railroad engineer whose […]
Door time: 6:30 PM Show time: 7:30 PM Discover the cosmopolitan wildlife that shares our city alleys and backyards with urban ecologist Chris Schell and find out how American history has shaped many species. Thinking that wildlife lives “somewhere else” is an easy mistake. Urban ecologist and National Geographic Explorer Chris Schell has dedicated his […]
Tickets Are Flying! Z2 Entertainment & 105.5 The Colorado Sound Present Door time: 6:30 Show time: 7:30 “One of the most unique and enduring bands in alternative rock” - All Music "Margo Timmins's voice is as melancholy and enchanting as ever” - The New York Times "There’s something that is nearly miraculous about the […]
Low Ticket Alert! Presented by Z2 Entertainment Door time: 6:00 Show time: 7:00 The Room On The Porch Upgrade Experience · An Intimate Discussion and Q&A With Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo' · One (1) Limited Edition Room On The Porch Poster · One (1) Specially Designed Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo' Tote Bag · […]
Door time: 6:30 PM Show time: 7:00 PM Silent Film Series 2026 | Series Four Pack Available! Featuring live music accompaniment by Hank Troy on piano. A 100-year tradition, the beloved Chautauqua Silent Film Series continues with Kid Boots (1926). Kid Boots is a silent comedy starring Eddie Cantor as Samuel “Kid” Boots, a hapless […]
Door time: 6:30 Show time: 7:30 Boulder Ballet launches its 2026–2027 season at Chautauqua Auditorium with Human, a bold and versatile program that explores the intersection of instinct and identity through three striking contemporary works. The evening opens with Over Glow, a refined yet playful exploration of movement and light. Set within a shifting palette […]
Door time: 6:30 Show time: 7:30 Join us for an evening of inspiring and captivating films handpicked from the Mountainfilm festival in Telluride, Colorado. Founded in 1979, Mountainfilm is one of America’s longest-running film festivals. The annual festival is held every Memorial Day weekend in Telluride, CO. Mountainfilm is a dynamic nonprofit organization and festival […]
Door time: 6:30 PM Show time: 7:00 PM Silent Film Series 2026 | Series Four Pack Available! Featuring live music accompaniment by Rodney Sauer on piano. A 100-year tradition, the beloved Chautauqua Silent Film Series continues with The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926). The Winning of Barbara Worth is a silent epic drama that follows […]
Tickets Are Flying! Presented by Z2 Entertainment Door time: 6:30 Show time: 7:30 Based out of Williamsburg, VA, Hornsby first rose to national prominence with The Way It Is, his 1986 Grammy-winning debut album with The Range. The title track became the most-played song on American radio in 1987 while Tupac Shakur’s timeless song “Changes” […]
Door time: 6:30 PM Show time: 7:00 PM Silent Film Series 2026 | Series Four Pack Available! Featuring live music accompaniment by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. A 100-year tradition, the beloved Chautauqua Silent Film Series continues with Beau Geste (1926). Beau Geste is a silent adventure drama based on the popular novel by […]